Welcome to the LiMpOo project homepage

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This project started during summer 1999.
The main idea was to turn some good-old PCs into dedicated MP3 (and other format) players. Some month later Vinz began to work on the software solution while he was abroad (Hello swiss people !!). He wrote an entire application in perl to do the job.
To be a dedicated MP3 player, you mustn't need an external display, nor a keyboard. Don't worry, a console mode is also here. So.... here we go

It's very easy, we are only two :)

• Vinz : Main coder of the project.
• Geos : Beta tester, coder of some module and html writer.

The basic idea of LiMpOo is to put together some nice piece of sofware. To do this job, vinz chose perl because it is easy to use, very powerful when coming to text manipulation and excellent for integration with other tools.

The software and hardware used are :

• A linux system with audio output
• A working perl interpreter. Any decent linux distribution should have a recent-enough one,
• Xaudio SDK to decode the mp3,
• lirc with irexec to receive infra-red order,
• MP3-Info perl module to extract information from your MP3 files,
• MP3-Play perl module for playback (not really used for the moment but required),
• TermReadkey perl module for keyboard interface,
• ConfigFile perl module for reading/saving preferences,
• LCDLib for LCD interface, part of thi project,
• Xmcd for CD Audio playback, CDDB database and encoding.

Actual feature list of LiMpOo :

• MP3 Player with Fast Backward and Foreward, next track, random, ... play ^_^, rxaudio features,
• ID3 sorting, playlist selection with Album, Artist, Genre, or track (thanks to perl htable),
• CD-Audio Player, cddb support for names,
• Encoding of AudioCD with lame,
• IR receptor supported, all suported by lirc,
• LCD support (Crystal Font, Matrix Orbital),
• Standard console support,
• And a lot ..., ask vinz to complete.

LiMpOo is online, you can download it NOW !!! sourceforge
Jump to the ftp to download all needed package
Except xaudio package, the licence does not permit us to put on the ftp, so you must go to xaudio web pages to download it. In order to compile MPEG-MP3Play you must take the sdk too. The version we have been tested are : xasdk-3.0.1.x86-unknown-linux-glibc.tar.gz and xaudio.x86-1.05.unknown-linux-glibc.tar.gz.

05/19/2000
Some minor web page update, place some peace of tools on the ftp server of sourceforge.
04/07/2000
First web page for LiMpOo. No public version released.

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